I personally describe CoffeeScript as "stabby". CS has all these little shortcuts and shorthands which seem great and appear to save time, but many of them are ambiguous, and then you get stabbed by their ambiguity, and you waste time debugging. Python, on the other hand, is still quite concise, but is generally very unambiguous.
I always thought CS was a "kinda-python-y" version of Javascript, though I never actually used it. It surprised me, therefore, to see that the OP considers these two items to be principles applied to the design of the language:
- Implicit is better than explicit
- There is more than one way to do it
These are the exact _opposite_ of a couple of the principles of the design of Python[1].
